buffet food for vegetarians

jackyann

easy mini "pizzas":

bought puff or plain pastry: use pastry cutters to line jam tart / mince pie tins

use dabs of tomato paste, the little mozzarella "pearls" that are often sold quite cheaply, slice of olive etc.

easy to pick up, and a bit cheaper than conventional pizza

onion bhajees are good too - bought or home-made & re-heated, but they are good cold as well.

also "glamorgan sausages" either as they are or as "veggie sausage rolls". Look the up in the BBC or Delia. They are a huge hit at our family "dos" including with the carnivores!

ERICS_MUM

This is very 1970's but I love cheese and pineapple bits on little cocktail sticks ! You could substitute silverskin onions or stuffed olives for the pineapple.

Dipak

I think the suggestions made are all good suggestions however what i have found based on past experience is contamination. I'm a vegetarian and the amount of times i've been to places where non-veg sandwiches are right next to the veg ones are incredible. I would suggest you keep them totally separate as you will find some people wont eat if its contaminated with non-veg products.

Good luck and hope it all goes ok.:beer:

Farway

To avoid any mis understanding on suitability, maybe use different coloured plates

That way veggies will know suitable food is on white plates for instance, omnivore food is on red maybe?

kathrynha

Pizza is always popular. If you are buying big ones and cutting it up I suggest letting it cool a little then using kitchen scissors. So much easier and mess free than a knife or a pizza cutter.

Cheese and biscuits are good too.

Just make sure you label stuff up that isn't obvious. Most people can recognise if a sandwich has a slice of meat or a slice of cheese in it, but stuff like quiche, bhargis and sausage/veggie rolls are harder to tell

dandy-candy

As a veggie I make a beeline for mini cheese and onion quiches. I find individually mini ones more tempting than big ones in slices - must be the kid in me!
I also love salads, especially naughty ones like potato salad and coleslaw....mmmmm I'm getting hungry now.....

belfastgirl23

Agree with the comments re mixing foods, there's nothing worse than someone saying 'some of these quiches are veggie, here try this one' lol. I'm not very strict so if I accidentally eat a bit of meat I'm not going to go crazy but I have many veggie friends who would really freak out at this. But I don't like being put in a 'taste it and see' kind of position.

Don't forget you can make many lovely veggie salads - potato salad, coleslaw, pasta salad, rice salad etc. Easily made ahead of time and popular with veggie and non veggie alike. You could also do little bruschetta type things with eg pesto and tomato, cheese, tapenade etc.

And yes, the carnivores will devour the veggie food too! Go 50/50 if you can...

Butterfly_Brain

My DD is a veggie and when I make pastry for her I use oil rather than butter and lard.

She has a vegan friend as well who loves vegetable couscous with grilled peppers, sweetcorn, peas and mushrooms.

Cheese straws using vegetarian cheese

Quiches such as mixed vegetable, mushroom or caramalised onion, make them crustless by leaving out the pastry, they go down well here.

Puff pastry tarts:

Mushroom with mushroom sauce is a family fave

Mozzarella, tomato and olive is another

frittata

Boiled eggs quartered or devilled eggs

Haloumi kebabs with fried halloumi, peppers and mushrooms or how aboout spicy quorn pieces made into kebabs.

or even a quorn coronation chicken

bruschetta, garlic bread slices, pizza slices or cut into shapes for a bit of fun.

Onion Bhajis, spicy samosas

Cheese and lentil loaf

Quorn also do sausage rolls and southern fried goujons

Hoummous with crudites and bread sticks

cous cous stuffed tomatoes

stuffed mushrooms with vegetable rice

falafels

Greek salad on a stick - a chunk of cucumber, a piece of feta, half a cherry tomato and an olive on a cocktail stick

potato salad

A big bowl of mixed salad

cherry tomatoes

A fruit platter

sillyvixen

if you are doing sandwiches as a veggie my fave filling is houmous with grated carrot - the carrot really bulks out the houmous and you can get loads a sandwiches out of a couple of pots. just a word of warning - keep your veggie and meat sandwiches on different plates - mixed platters look great but cross contamination occurs as sandwiches shift as they are moved. i am allergic to meat products and mixed platters are a no no!!

Bettie

belfastgirl23 wrote: »

You could also do little bruschetta type things with eg pesto and tomato, cheese, tapenade etc.

Watch the pesto.. I've made it myself but struggle to buy Veggie shop bought....the Parmesan thing again...